awake 6.30 am

Posted on February 25, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bed, Collage, College, Drawing, Insomnia, Life, Paper cutting, single bed, Sketch, TiredLeave a comment

Sitting here- pondering what to do about college work, I never seem to get a minute to myself. I couldn’t sleep, I’m either too hot or too cold or someones elbow is sticking in my ribs, but because I woke up and started typing, now hubby is up and ready to go for a walk! For heavens sake can’t I get a quiet moment to myself?

I’m seriously thinking about single beds! you know you are getting older when you think that comfort outweighs companionship. No more knees in your back, or elbows in your ear, or your shoulder being used as a pillow.

No I’m not doing college stuff, I’m just trying to chill for half an hour. No doubt I will go back to bed soon!

Beautiful

Posted on February 24, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Beautiful, Drawing, Felt pens, fields, Landscape, Life, Mist, Sketching, Ukraine, View, World8 Comments

Since todays prompt is beautiful I decided to draw a beautiful view of the Ukraine. So sad about what is happening. Felt pen drawing, #bandofsketchers. I love the mist coming down over the hills obscuring the pine trees.

Madness from Russia

Posted on February 24, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Attack, Europe, European, History, Life, Madness, Putin, Russia, Terrible, Ukraine, War4 Comments

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Looking East this morning at the rain I feel sad and worried.

It’s happened. Russia is invading Ukraine. Why? President Putin seems to have become angry with Ukraine getting on with life and decided to try and take it back into a new sort of Soviet Union. However he tries to justify it, it does seem like madness. His troops have even taken over the old chernobil nuclear power station that blew up disastrously (in the 1980’s I think?). Why? If they shell that it could spread nuclear waste across Europe, Ukraine, but also Russia. Why be so mad? Why try and hurt people.

Russia and the West could get on, we could discuss things sensibly, but children, adults, older people are being hurt and killed. Why? What right has one man got to hurt and maim and kill people in a country that he does not control. Perhaps this is more notable to Europeans as it is happening on European soil. It says bad things about us that we neglect what happens in other parts of the World. We leave places to their fate like Syria and Afghanistan. We don’t understand the internal politics and the problems between different factions. How can we deal with anything if we don’t understand. Russias preemptive strikes are frightening and baffling.

Cat pays rent!

Posted on February 23, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Boy cat, Cat, Life, Mice, Rent, shrews, three cats, Tuxedo cat, Upset4 Comments

Our outdoor, now indoor boy cat (seen sleeping here) seems to think he’s obliged to pay rent for staying here! It is quite upsetting when he brings small rodents like shrews and mice in. Sometimes we manage to rescue them. I hate it when he has a mouse moustache! I’m trying to teach him not to do it, but mostly I shout and tell him off and he looks bewildered (and bewhiskered).

Last night was mad. The mouse he bought in escaped into the bathroom but we managed to get it out by shutting our three cats in the kitchen and opening the back door. Since the bathroom is downstairs it was just a short run out for the mouse. The cats were contented with some cat food and we breathed a sigh of relief. I hope it doesn’t happen again soon!

What should I post?

Posted on February 22, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, boring? Stars, Imagination, Life, Poetry, Stats, Thinking, what can I say2 Comments

Am I getting boring? A bit of art and sketching, some poetry, stories about cats.

Sketching, drawing, painting. What more things should I try? More short stories. I suddenly find my stats have dipped. Is it the weather, the time of year. The threat of war in Ukraine. I can’t imagine how that will pan out.

I’m looking forward to a supernova that they have said may flare up soon. I’m strangely enthusiastic about space and science. I’m really more interested in stars not stats. Does that make me boring? Too many questions. No answers

Face

Posted on February 22, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Can you see, Digital art, Eyes, Life, Pattern, seeing things, self portraitLeave a comment

Have I posted this before? A digital image of an abstracted female face. I wish I could remember how I made it. Its probably a self portrait. I can also see an animal with green eyes in the lower half. There I go seeing things on patterns again.

Information!

Posted on February 21, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Computers, confidential, Emails, Information, Life, modern life, PDF, Thinking, TimeLeave a comment

You get an email. We need this information, we must have this document. Please send a PDF of your certificate. Please fill in the form marked exhibit B!

Well it feels like that. I’m trying to find bits of information that I haven’t seen for thirty years! It’s just part of our modern life. Everything is online. But what happens if you don’t have it or are not totally expert in it. I’ve transferred PDFs but can’t find them now….

I rang up. Yes of course you can post the information in to us! Phew. My hubby never uses our computer. So I’m his secretary. Better than having it thrown out of the window!

The 3 beaches

Posted on February 20, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, beaches, Bovisand, Devon, Drawing, Fun, Life, Memory, Sketching, TimeLeave a comment

Comparisons. The middle drawing was the original and the top and bottom ones are experiments. I love playing with art. Originally part of our #bandofsketchers prompt ‘beach’ based on Bovisand in Devon.

WordPress keeps stopping?

Posted on February 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged blog post, Full memory, Life, Memory, percentage, thousands of posts, Time, WordPress4 Comments

I don’t know if it’s me or WordPress but the site keeps closing on me. I’ve just deleted a few more photographs from previous posts and taken my memory down to 98.3% full! I’ve always posted my own pictures here and I used to always post large images.. Big mistake. I can’t afford to upgrade my memory. I guess I will have to keep my pictures restricted in size and keep deleting them!

Beach

Posted on February 20, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Beach, Design, Drawing, Felt pens, Fun, Life, Memory, SketchingLeave a comment

Beach, #bandofsketchers. Today’s prompt. Felt pens. I also did digital variations. I might put them on another post. Trying for a 1930’s art deco vibe.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life